Prof. dr Đuro Šušnjić,

Belgrade

Disturbances on the Path of Understanding, Trust and Reconciliation

Summary

In life, there are certain "constants of our mentality" which show as disturbances for understanding, trust and making peace between nations, belief and culture. Those hard patterns of thought, belief and behavior (national, political, cultural), about which we will be discussing here, and they are: traditionalism, authoritarian mentality, political non/culture, anti intellectualism, prejudice, absence of critical public and lingual forms. Very well known French historian Fernan Brodel would say that these terms are longer lasting

Key words: understanding, trust, belief, traditionalism, authoritarian mentalityt.